panic: kern/52718
Terry Lambert
tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Fri May 30 02:29:00 PDT 2003
David Xu wrote:
> > This was caused by rev. 1.3 of a commit by Jeff Robertson to
> > kern_utmx.c. The problem is that the proc struct is not locked
> > for:
> >
> > FOREACH_THREAD_IN_PROC(td->td_proc, td0)
> >
> > in the lock and unlock.
> >
> > Either lock the proc before and unlock it after this, in both
> > _utmx_lock() and _utmx_unlock(), or revert the code to 1.2.
>
> kern_sig.c has same issue in several places.
Just looked... YUCK! The Process group code and the code in
the filt_sigdetach() have got to be what you are talking about,
right?
I'm constantly surprised at some of the race windows I find in
production code (not just FreeBSD), that are just waiting there
to chew someone's leg off the first chance they get... 8-(.
-- Terry
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